IKEA is in the midst of rolling out a new lineup of smart home devices, ditching Zigbee in favor of Matter over Thread.

Amazon says it will bring Matter-over-Thread support to its Echo devices this spring. All of the company’s remaining compatible Echo and Eero devices will be updated to support Matter by spring as ...

Smart home devices automate many of our daily tasks and make it easy to check in on our home from anywhere in the world. Still, most smart home devices are only compatible with other products made by ...

If you've been following the smart home space lately, you've probably noticed that the protocol wars are... complicated. You've got Zigbee devices that need a coordinator, Thread devices that need a ...

Popular smart home device maker Aqara has unveiled three new Matter and Thread accessories at CES today. The incoming devices include the new U300 smart handset lock, the Border Router Plug, and the ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The Thread 1.4 spec arrives today with a slew of updates designed to solve the problems the smart home protocol ...

The "Matter" standard arrived with a splash several years ago, full of promises to unite the smart home world and fix all (okay, not quite all) our problems. The protocol was formed from a consortium ...

Smart home manufacturer Aqara announced a series of new Matter-compatible smart home products at CES this week, including a Matter-compatible hub, a smart plug with an integrated Thread border router, ...

With the emergence of Matter comes a wide breadth of opportunities to improve Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity and enable new applications and solutions for years to come. Matter is an ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. With 100 million Matter-enabled Echos and the fourth-gen smart speaker as a Thread border router, it should now ...